AESOP'S FABLES Definition & Meaning

Aesop's fables

A group of stories thought to have been written by Aesop, a Greek storyteller. The main characters in these stories are animals, and each story demonstrates a moral lesson. ( See also “ The Boy Who Cried Wolf ,” “ The Fox and the Grapes ,” and “ The Tortoise and the Hare .”)

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Jefferson denounced Washington's speech as “shreds of stuff from Aesop’s fables and Tom Thumb. ”

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But reach high atop that dusty bookshelf and grab “The Tortoise and the Hare” from Aesop’s Fables.

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“Winter legends are the equivalent of Aesop’s Fables,” Treuer added.

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When it was too hot to be at the beach, too hot to think about moving a muscle, we read Aesop’s fables and worked through sets of spatial-reasoning exercises, which to my relief she found the opposite of a chore, something akin to play, much the way I had.

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Pig Pal is similar to the animal characters from “Aesop’s Fables,” one of Lincoln’s favorite books from childhood.

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